Loose-eile-carb holder



S. J. P. SWALLENDER.

LOOSE FILE CARD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED 00124. 1919.

1,348,906. Patented Aug. 10,1920.

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SWANTE J. 1?. SWALLENDER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

LOOSE-FILE-CAR'D HOLDER.

Application filed October 24', 1919.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, SWANTE J. P. SWAL- LENDER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, in the county of Cook, State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Loose-File-Card Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of loose file card holders in which an individual group of loose index file or like cards are maintained in proper relation and adapted for easy and convenient access, and the pres ent improvement has for its various objects:

To provide a simple and efi ective structural formation and association of parts in a holder of the type above mentioned, and in which a pair of pivotally connected holding or cover plates or sections adapted to contain a group of loose file cards, are provided with means for preventing end displacement .of such loose cards, and with supporting means adapted to permit inde pendent opening and closing movements of either of the holding or cover plates for a ready and easy access to any particular card of the group.

To provide a simple and convenient supporting stand for a loose card holder of the type described, and which is adapted'to support the holding or cover plates in open inclined relation to each other when access is desired to a particular index card of the group contained between said holding or cover plates, all as will hereinafter more fully appear.

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1, is a perspective view of the holder and its supporting stand in a separated condition.

Fig. 2, is a transverse sectional elevation, illustrating a closed condition of the holding plates in full lines and an open condition of thesame in dotted lines.

Like reference numerals indicate like Referring to the drawing, 1 and 2 designate companion holder or cover plates or sections of an approximately counterpart construction and formed with angle webs or flanges 3 at their lower ends and which flanges are in turn formed with interengaging pivot eyes or knuckles 4: for the reception of the pivot rod 5 by which the cover Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 10, 1920.

Serial No. 332,921.

. plates are pivotally connected together. The

webs or flanges 3 constitute a bottom support for the contained group 6 of loose index or like cards.

7 designate interengaging angle webs or flanges formed on the respective ends of the holder or cover plates 1, 2 and adapted to constitute end stops for retaining the group of loose file cards 6 in proper relation to each other and prevent a side shift of any portion of said group.

8 designate a pair of supporting studs or trunnions extending beyond the ends of the cover plates 1, 2, in approximate alinement with the pivotal connection between said plates, and preferably formed by extensions of the pivot rod 5, as shown in Fig. l. The supporting studs 8 are adapted to afford the sole supporting connection between a holder of the present construction and the carrying base or spider for an individual holder or for a series of holders where an assembled series of the holders are desired. The single type of carrying base or spider is shown as illustrative of this part of the present invention, and consists as follows 9 designates a longitudinal rail having upstanding end portions 10 formed with open top recesses 11 for the reception of the aforesaid supporting studs in a readily detachable manner.

12 designates a transverse rail secured to the rail 9 by a connecting rivet 13 and having oppositely and upwardly inclined portions 14 and downturned end portions 15 forming supporting feet or rests. In such structure the inclined portions 14 provide rests for the respective holder or cover plates 1 and 2 to hold the same in proper open and closed condition as illustrated in Fig. 2.

-Having thus fully described my said invention'what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

1. In a loose file card holder, the combination of a pair of cover plates, each formed with interengaging stop flanges at its respective sides and with a longitudinal bottom web or flange having at its end a pivot eye, a pivot rod engaging the pivot eyes of the bottom flangesv aforesaid, and supporting studs associated with the cover plates adjacent to their point of pivotal connection, substantially as set forth.

2. In a loose file card holder, the combination of a pair of cover plates, each formed with interengag-ing stop flanges at its respective sides and with a longitudinal bottom Web or flange having at itsend a pivot eye, and a pivot rod engaging the pivot eyes of the bottom flanges aforesaid, and having iend extensions constituting supports l for the holder, substantially as set forth.

3. A loose file holder comprising, a pair of cover plates pivotally connected together and provided With end supporting studs, and a carrying spider comprising a longitudinal rail formed With upright ends having open top recesses to receive said studs, and a transverse rail formed Withoppo- 'to form supports, and a carrying spider comprising a longitudinal rail formed with upright ends having open top recesses to receive said extensions and a transverse rail formed with oppositely inclined rest portions and downturned end portions, substantially as set forth.

Signed at Chicago, Illinois, this 21st day of October, 1919.

SWANTE J. P. SWALLENDER. 

